Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- medium
- Scent
- Peach and tropical fruit notes.
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Fibre
- absent
- Flavour
- Sweet, with a little tartness.
- Used for
- fresh, juice, drying
How to spot it
- Skin
- Ripe skin colour Dark green with a small dark-red blush.
- Flesh
- orange
- Shape
- Large and oval.
- Size
- large
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- Gives slightly under a gentle squeeze; yellow undertones or dots become more visible.
In US stores
Usual monthsToday, Oct 22Most plentiful Jan, Jun–Jul
2019-2022Oct · Low supply
- Peak supply
- Some supply
- Low supply
Usual supply in the source records; not live store stock.
From Mexico · Most plentiful Jun–Aug
Oct · No supply level recorded
- Peak supply
Usual supply in the source records; not live store stock.
From Ecuador · Most plentiful Dec–Jan
Oct · No supply level recorded
- Peak supply
Usual supply in the source records; not live store stock.
From Peru · Most plentiful Dec–Mar
Oct · No supply level recorded
- Peak supply
Usual supply in the source records; not live store stock.
Origin & family
Where Kent began
Recorded origin
Miami, Florida
United States
Family tree
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Kent
4959Large4051Small
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Shared by Tommy Atkins and Kent and Haden
Field notes
- blush
- slightmango.org ↗
Original source notes
- skin colour ripe
- Dark green with a small dark-red blush.mango.org ↗
- shape
- Large and oval.mango.org ↗
- flavour notes
- Sweet, with a little tartness.mango.org ↗
- texture
- Tender and juicy, with little fibre.mango.org ↗
- aroma
- Peach and tropical fruit notes.mango.org ↗
- ripeness cue
- Gives slightly under a gentle squeeze; yellow undertones or dots become more visible.mango.org ↗
- sweetness
- mediummango.org ↗
- texture
- soft, juicymango.org ↗
- blush
- slightmango.org ↗
- flesh colour
- orangespecialtyproduce.com ↗
- uses
- fresh, juice, dryingmango.org ↗
- skin colour ripe
- green, red, yellow · Floridaedis.ifas.ufl.edu ↗
- fibre
- absent · United Statesnchfp.uga.edu ↗
- size
- large · United Statesnchfp.uga.edu ↗
- skin colour ripe
- green, yellow, red · United Statesnchfp.uga.edu ↗
- weight
- 500–600 g · Queenslandera.dpi.qld.gov.au ↗
- season timing
- mid to late · Queenslandera.dpi.qld.gov.au ↗
- texture
- soft, creamy · Mexicomangoemex.com ↗
- fibre
- absent · Mexicomangoemex.com ↗
- flesh colour
- orange · Mexicomangoemex.com ↗
- size
- medium to large · Mexicomangoemex.com ↗
Harvest calendar · Brazil
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 1, 9, 10, 11, 12
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- BR
Other mango varieties
Photos
Squam256CC BY-SA 3.0 Fruit hanging from the original Kent mango tree, located in Coconut Grove, Florida
Sources 22
- nchfp.uga.edu
- senasa.gob.pe
- mango.org
- mango.org
- journals.flvc.org
- specialtyproduce.com
- mango.org
- en.wikipedia.org
- fairchildgarden.org
- en.wikipedia.org
- mango.org
- agrodan.com.br
- api.nal.usda.gov
- mango.org
- agrodan.com.br
- mangoemex.com
- edis.ifas.ufl.edu
- era.dpi.qld.gov.au
- mypvp.doa.gov.my
- fruitandnutlist.org
- mango.org
- commons.wikimedia.org